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Confirmation that a second Texas health care worker has tested positive for Ebola is raising questions over whether the hospital and federal health officials really have a handle on containing the virus.<p>Top Obama administration health officials on Wednesday acknowledged that federal agencies should …

When Ebola virus resurfaced in West Africa in December 2013, public health officials were hopeful that it could be contained, as it had been in past outbreaks.<p>But the virus continues to ravage communities in Africa and has now spread to the United States and Europe. The number of new cases in …

Beyond the medical questions about transmission, treatment and protocols for dealing with the Ebola virus, there are bigger questions that remain unanswered. For example, when the virus spreads to the Middle East, Latin America or Asia -- and it appears this is a matter of when rather than if -- …

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama vowed Wednesday that his administration would respond in a "much more aggressive way" to cases of Ebola in the United States and warned that in an age of frequent travel the disease could spread globally if the world doesn't respond to the "raging epidemic …

Cross-posted from UN Women<p>Radio host Justice Clarke and his guests sit in a semi-circular United Nations radio studio for a live discussion of ‘Ebola and Stigma’. This is a special edition of the UN Women-sponsored 12th Man radio talk-show, produced in partnership with UN Radio in Liberia — a show …

<b>(CNN) —</b> The Texas hospital where two health care workers contracted Ebola while caring for a patient had guidelines that were "constantly changing" and didn't have protocols on how to deal with the deadly virus," a nurses' union claims.<p>"The protocols that should have been in place in Dallas were …

A newly diagnosed nurse flew on a commercial airliner on Monday.<p>DALLAS—The Ebola crisis in the United States escalated Wednesday, as a second nurse here was diagnosed with the disease, concerns rose over whether more health care workers at a Dallas hospital might be infected, and President Obama …

The nation's largest union of registered nurses Wednesday called on President Obama to mandate uniform standards at U.S. hospitals to protect healthcare workers from the<p>Ebola virus.<p>"Not one more patient, nurse or healthcare worker should be put at risk due to a lack of healthcare facility …

A Dallas nurse who took a commercial flight from Cleveland hours before reporting symptoms of Ebola says that the Center for Disease Control and Prevention told her it was okay to fly.<p>Amber Vinson helped treat Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian man who died in Dallas of the Ebola virus earlier this …

Early reports indicated that the hospital sent Thomas Eric Duncan home with antibiotics the first time he sought care, even though he mentioned that he was recently in Liberia, one of the countries at the epicenter of the worst Ebola outbreak in history. By the time Duncan returned to the emergency …

Labor expresses ‘grave concern’ at response to escalating crisis, arguing evacuation arrangements could be put in place<p>Labor has stepped up its calls for the Australian government to send specialists to west Africa to prevent the spread of Ebola, arguing appropriate evacuation arrangements could be …

Federal health authorities Wednesday appeared to be focusing on apparent lapses in the way a Dallas hospital responded to a Liberian man suffering from symptoms of an<p>Ebolainfection, which now has spread to a second healthcare worker at the hospital.<p>Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the<p>Centers for …

Nearly 100 nurses, doctors and consultants are set to join 40 soldiers already in the west African country<p>British Army medics were due to arrive in Sierra Leone on Thursday to help in the fight against Ebola by operating a treatment centre specifically for healthcare workers.<p>Ninety-one people, …

The Spanish nurse's assistant who contracted Ebola after treating a patient with the deadly virus is feeling a little better and says she would treat Ebola patients again if she is cured, a family friend and spokeswoman said Wednesday.<p>Teresa Romero Ramos is being treated at the Carlos III Hospital …

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama expressed confidence Wednesday that the government's response to the Ebola epidemic will be effective after a meeting with his top cabinet secretaries at the White House.<p>"The key thing to understand about this disease is these protocols work," Obama said, …

GENEVA (AP) — The death toll from Ebola will rise this week to more than 4,500 people from the 9,000 infected and the outbreak is still out of control in three West African nations, a top official with the U.N. health agency said Thursday.<p>Dr. Isabelle Nuttall, director of the World Health …

Amara Bangura, 35, a radio presenter who used show to dispel myths about disease, refused accommodation in Norwich<p>Bewitched aircraft? Kola cure? Sierra Leonean DJ tackles Ebola myths over the airwaves<p>A radio presenter from Sierra Leone who had been broadcasting a myth-busting show about Ebola in …